2008 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Montreal, Canada POSTER SESSIONS AT A GLANCE FRIDAY, 25 JULY, Poster Session I

POSTER PRESENTER(S) POSTER TITLE # 1 C Spencer HerpNET: A Global Virtual Museum of Geospatial Data for Herpetological Collections 2 R Sekonyela Evolutionary relationships of the frog genus Callulops (Anura, Microhylidae) Multiple cryptic and/or frequent gene introgression? A tale from three high elevation Tibetan 3 J Fu megophryid frogs 4 C Stephen Phylogenetic Analysis of the Iguaninae 5 T Gamble Into the light: Opsin evolution and multiple origins of diurnality in geckos Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms reveal population structuring and long distance dispersal in 6 A Geneva New Caledonian insular gecko species (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae) Phylogeography of the imperiled Redtail Splitfin (Xenotoca eiseni) in Mexico: Implications for and 7C Kenway - SI conservation Genetic structure in epigean population of Astyanax mexicanus at Mexican Atlantic slope and some 8 F Garcia biological data in blind forms An mtDNA phylogeny of the subfamily Amphistichinae sheds light on anal fin color polymorphism in the 9 M Westphal silver , ellipticum 10 P Chakrabarty Revision of the Photoplagios leuciscus Günther,1860 Species Complex New species of Leporinus Spix (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from rio Curuá, Iriri-Xingu basin, at Serra do 11 J Birindelli Cachimbo, Brazil 12 T Cavender Construction Of A Cyprinid Prototype 13 K Conway Evolution of the spinous dorsal- and anal-fin rays of cyprinine fishes (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae: Cyprininae) 14 R Duplain Taxonomic Revision of the Flatfish Genus Trinectes (Achiridae; Pleuronectiformes) Two new species of Hypostomus Lacépède (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the rio Paranaíba and rio Grande, 15 C Zawadzki upper rio Paraná basin, Central Brazil Progress in Molecular Systematics and Inference of Reproductive Evolution of Characid Fishes (Teleostei: 16 R Javonillo Ostariophysi) 17 C Kenaley Exploring lightfish (Teleostei: Stomiiformes) relationships: a neuroanatomical approach 18 R Broughton Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life 19 R Mayden A Preliminaryyppp Revision Of The Dionda episcopa Complex Higher-level Relationships of the Cypriniformes (: Ostariophysi) Inferred from 238 Whole 20 M Miya Mitochondrial Genome Sequences 21 C McMahan Systematics of the Enigmatic Middle American Genus Vieja (Teleostomi: Cichlidae) 22 R Mooi Exploring Gobioid Phylogeny Using Morphology – Not a Lost Cause DeepFin Research Coordination Network Update: News and Opportunities to Build the Tree of Life of 23 G Orti Fishes Shape Analysis and Systematic Status of the Blenny Darter, blennius, a Percid Fish from the 24 M Burns River Drainage Interrelationships And Historical Biogeography of Cypriniform Fishes (Actinopterygii: Ostariophysi): 25 K Saitoh Evidences from Mitochondrial Genomics Placed Familial/Subfamilial Branching and Intercontinental Exchanges Older Than Fossil Records Evolution of herbivory in a carnivorous clade of minnows (Teleostei: Cyprinidae): effects on gut structure 26 D German - SI and function A morphological investigation into a potential new species of Moxostoma (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) 27 M Davis from the Kansas River basin Phylogenetic Relationships of Labeonini (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) Inferred from Four Nuclear and Three 28 L Yang Mitochondrial Loci Clarification of the Lycodes diapterus species complex (: Zoarcidae), with comments on the 29 J Orr subgenus Furcimanus 30 C O'Connell Evaluation of a Magnetic Barrier on Juvenile Negaprion brevirostris: Preliminary Results 31 M Blanco-Parra - C Description of the banded guitarfish reproductive tract and embryos development Identification by video surveillance of species-specific bait manipulation by lemon sharks, Negaprion 32 M Bond brevirostris and its influence on capture susceptibility 33 S Brown Diet Composition of Four Abundant Skate Species of the Gulf of Alaska A validation for the use of fin photographs for individual identification of white sharks (Carcharodon 34 T Chapple carcharias) off California and a comparison between two analysis methods 35 J Dickson - C Three Dimensional Escape Response in the White-spotted Ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei Demographics and Habitat Partitioning of Elasmobranchs in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina: 36 M Evans Preliminary Results 37 J Fry - C Preliminary results on the life hisotr of four Bering Sea Skate Species, Genera Bathyraja and Rhinoraja Assessing the Ultrastructure of the Elasmobranch Retina: The Application of Microwave and High Pressure 38 B Harahush - C Freezing Techniques 39 D Kacev - C Length Based Population Dynamics Analysis of Mako Sharks on the West Coast of North America 40 A Piercy - C Maternal influences on embryonic condition and the occurrence of runts in viviparous sharks Applying An Individual-Based Modeling Approach To Address Potential Impacts Of Habitat Loss In A 41 K Stump Lemon Shark Nursery

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POSTER PRESENTER(S) POSTER TITLE # Mineralization of Meckel’s Cartilage in the Shark, Squalus acanthias: Histological Observations and the 42 D Smith Role of Mechanical Stress 43 P Kyne Mobula japanica (Müller & Henle, 1841) in Australian Waters Morphological variation in the dwarf round ray Urotrygon nana (Miyake & McEachran, 1988) from the Gulf 44 A Guzman Castellanos of Tehuantepec, Mexico Target-Training in the Brownbanded Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum) and Nurse Shark 45 S Albrecht (Ginglymostoma cirratum) 46 M Santos Histology of Lateral Line in Embryos of Potamotrygon motoro (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) 47 K Tribuzy Using Fuzzy Model to Age Estimation of Freshwater Stingrays Species from Rio Negro Basin, Brazil 48 D Bernal In-vivo Muscle Dynamics Of Thresher Sharks During Sustained Swimming 49 F Carvalho Ecology of three Elasmobranch species in the Atol das Rocas Biological Reserve, off Northeast Brazil Diet of the Freshwater Stingray Potamotrygon motoro (Potamotrygonidae) in the Brazilian Amazon River 50 P Charvet-Almeida Channel 51 T Curtis Management of Skate Fisheries off the Northeastern United States

52 W Duncan Functional Morphology of the gills of Amazonian Freshwater Stingrays (Elasmobranchii: Potamotrygonidae)

53 V Faria Elasmobranch fisheries off Northeastern Brazil, Western Equatorial Atlantic Dentition of the Southern thorny skate, Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi, 1935): Qualitative Analysis And 54 D Figueroa Anomalies Age And Growth Of The Silky Shark, Carcharhinus falciformis, On The West Coast of Baja California Sur, 55 J Sanchez-de Ita Mexico 56 C Estupiñan-Montaño Feeding Habits Of The Scalloped Hammerhead Sphyrna lewini, In Ecuadorian Pacific 57 F Hazin Ecological aspects of the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) at Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, Brazil 58 F Hogan Age validation of little skate and winter skate using tetracycline marking at both egg and adult stages NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center Elasmobranch Tagging Management System: One Database 59 L Hollensead to Bind Them All Age and growth estimates for the smallnose fanskate, Sympterygia bonapartii in the south-west Atlantic 60 J Jañez and derived from captive born. 61 T Lisney The Visual Biology Of Holocephalans: A Review Reproductive biology of the Pacific sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon longurio (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882), in 62 L Mejía-Salazar the Mexican Pacific Ocean 63 S Melo Paratrygon aiereba (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) Fisheries at Purus River, Brazil Population genetic patterns among phenotypically divergent thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata) populations 64 D Ostrow from the western Gulf of Maine 65 G Rincon Reproductive Aspects of the “Mariquita” Stingray, Dasyatis marianae, of the Northeast Brazil 66 A Shibuya Comparative study of prey capture mechanisms in freshwater and marine stingrays Re-examination Of Growth Rates Of Female Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo) From Two Different Populations 67 A Ubeda From The Eastern Gulf of Mexico Based On Tag-Recapture Data 68 K Weng Migration of a High Trophic Level Predator, the Salmon Shark, Between Distant Ecoregions The Brain of Mobula japanica (Spinetail Devilray, Myliobatiformes, Elasmobranchii) in Gross Morphological 69 C Ari and Ecological Perspectives Preliminary study on the age and growth of the spinetail mobula, Mobula japanica, (Müller and Henle, 70 E Cuevas-Zimbron 1941), with comments on its vertebral column structure. Abundance, Seasonal Occurrence, And Biological Information Of Devil Rays (Batoidea:Mobulidae) In The 71 F Galván-Magaña Gulf Of California, Mexico Oceanic Conditions, Chlorophyll-a and Zooplankton; Exploring the Reasons for Seasonal Migrations of 72 K Townsend Manta birostris in Southern Queensland Waters. Using Paired-Laser Photogrammetry for Measuring Manta Ray (Manta birostris) Sizes. Are Maui’s Mantas 73 M Deakos Horizontally Challenged? 74 K Kumli Photo-Identification of the Manta Ray, Manta birostris, in the Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico 75 M de Rosemont Manta Polynesia Research & Protect 76 T Clark Sixteen Years of Photo-Identification of Hawaiian Manta Rays (Manta birostris) 77 A Marshall Cleaning Behaviour of a Photographically Identified Population of Manta Rays in Southern Mozambique 78 M Bennett The Reproductive Ecology of Manta birostris off Southern Mozambique 79 T Kashiwagi Population Characteristics of Manta birostris Observed in Yaeyama, Okinawa, Japan, 1987-2006 80 M Poortvliet Population Genetics of Devil Rays Management of Manta Ray (M. birostris) Interactive Tours in the Shallow Lagoonal Waters of Ningaloo 81 B Daw Reef, Western Australia – A Global Benchmark for Tourism Interactions 82 E Michael Measuring the Size Distribution of Mantas Rays Seen Along the Kona Coast of Hawaii 83 M Alvarez Reproductive Biology Of Hammerhead Shark Sphyrna lewini In Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico

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35 2008 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Montreal, Canada POSTER SESSIONS AT A GLANCE SATURDAY, 26 JULY, Poster Session II

POSTER PRESENTER(S) POSTER TITLE # 1 C Bevier The effect of parasite infection on phonotaxic response in the Mink Frog, Rana septentrionalis 2 P Cupp Field Evidence of Unpalatability of Northern Red Salamanders, Pseudotriton ruber 3 K Hansknecht The Effect of Light Intensity on Predatory Luring by Nerodia clarkii compressicauda 4 E Juterbock Moisture Relations and Climbing Behavior in the Red-cheeked Salamander, Plethodon jordani 5 B Jellen Female behavior facilitates mate detection in Northern Watersnakes (Nerodia sipedon) 6 Y Kam Brooding and Egg Feeding Behavior of a Rhacophorid Tree Frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri) From Taiwan 7 S Mullin Variation in Amount of Forest Habitat Influences Orientation of Juvenile Amphibians Emigrating from Breeding Ponds 8 D Noble The Effects of Density on the Reproductive Success of Alternative Mating Tactics in Male Wood Frogs (Rana sylvatica) 9 B Stephenson Testing the sensory exploitation hypothesis in a lizard, Sceloporus minor 10 J Kim Effects of a Long-term Elevation of Perceived Predation Risk on Territorial Behaviour in Wild Juvenile Atlantic Salmon The Influence Of Larval Growth History And Exogenous Thyroid Hormone On Life History Allocation Patterns In The 11 P Clarkson Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) 12 H Modrow Diet Of Tiger Salamanders In North Dakota, With Implications For Flow Of Heavy Metals Through Wetland Food Webs

13 E Seney - SH Diet Of The Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Lepidochelys kempii, Along The Upper Texas Coast

14 D Simpson Factors Affecting Anuran Community Structure Within Delmarva Bays: Implications For Conservation And Management

15 K Babbitt Genetic Analysis of Amphibian Dispersal in a Forested Landscape The Distribution And Movement Of The Northern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus) Within A Third Order 16 T Plenderleith Stream System The Developmental Effects Of Coprophagy And Identification Of Cellulolytic Bacteria In Green Frog Tadpoles, Rana 17 P Owen clamitans The Effect Of Predation Risk On The Morphology, Behavior, And Life History Of The Mole Salamander, Ambystoma 18 K Landolt talpoideum 19 T DeWitt Form, Function & Fitness—Selection and Performance Gradients for Tadpoles Exposed to Predatory Naiads

20 D Gregoire Non-native Fishes of South Florida as Predators of Native Larval Anurans

21 C Anthony Ecological Separation of Striped and Unstriped Forms of Plethodon cinereus

22 K Hoffmann A Hybrid Technique Using Visual Implant Elastomer and Toe-clipping to Individually Mark Anurans

23 J Purrenhage - SH Influence of Habitat Structure on Pond-Breeding Amphibians

24 K Summers Amazonian poison frogs depositing tadpoles with Andean competitors: an ancient ecological trap?

25 T Vasconcelos Influence Of Habitat Heterogeneity And Climate Variables In Brazilian Anuran Communities

26 T Schriever - SH Effects of Hurricane Disturbances on Herpetofaunal Communities in Southeastern Louisiana The Role Of Prescribed Burn On Pinus palustris (Longleaf Pine) Community Composition And Structure: A Multiple Taxa 27 K Berben Approach To Adaptive Management Field Testing Cohort And Capture Marks With Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) Tags, A Case Study With Greater 28 T Luhring - SH Siren, Siren lacertina Using GIS And Ecological Niche Modelling To Investigate The Environmental Factors Regulating Amphibian Distributions 29 D Trumbo In Missouri 30 T Radzio Winter Activity and Behavior of Yearling Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in Southern Mississippi

31 J Rowe Daily Movements and Activity of Stinkpot Turtles (Sternotherus odoratus) in a Southwestern Michigan Lake Multiple Estimates of Terrapin Clutch Size at Gateway National Recreation Area, New York and New Jersey: What is the 32 E Rulison “real” average? 33 S Lochetto Lizard Tail Length And Break Frequency Vary Ontogenetically and Ecologically

34 K Nicholson Ecology And Natural History Of The Knight Anole, Anolis equestris

35 U Kawai Habitat Use of Morphologically Poorly Diverged Geckos, Gekko yakuensis and Gekko hokouensis in Yakushima, Japan No Evidence For Sex-Biased Dispersal In Eastern Foxsnakes (Elaphe gloydi) Within Two Disjunct Regional Populations 36 J Row In Ontario 37 J Pruett Preliminary Investigation of Microhabitat Use of Agkistrodon piscivorus Inhabiting a Floodplain

38 K Neal Population-level Comparisons of Enzyme Activities in Venom of the Florida cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti

39 B Halstead Body Temperature Selection and Thermoregulatory Efficiency of the Giant Garter Snake

40 R King Body Temperatures of Hibernating Watersnakes

41 P Andreadis Seasonality Syndrome and Proliferating Pythons

42 A Whiting - CARC The role of tadpoles in temporary pond food webs within the Aspen Parkland of Alberta

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POSTER PRESENTER(S) POSTER TITLE Evaluating predictive habitat models based on presence data for the threatened spring salamander Gyrinophilus 43 J Ploss - CARC porphyriticus in Quebec, Canada The relation between variation in phenotypic fitness proxies and DNA microsatellite heterozygosity in eastern foxsnakes 44 R Lougheed - CARC (Elaphe gloydi) The smooth green snake and the northern red-bellied snake: A comparison of the ecology of two small, terrestrial, 45 N Cairns - CARC northern snakes 46 S Werman Evolution of Neurotoxins in Rattlesnakes: DNA and Peptide comparisons Three-finger Toxins In Viperid Venoms: A Comparison Of The Proteome And Transcriptome Of The Desert Massasauga 47 S Mackessy (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii) P Jackson-Tooby - 48 Home Range Size of male and female Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes (Crotalus o. oreganus) SH 49 B Greene Thermal Effects on Strike-induced Chemosensory Searching in the Cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus

50 M Cardwell Techniques for Identification of Prey by Scat Analysis

51 J Ballenger Assessing the Use of Artificial Structure in a Fragmented Landscape: Herpetofauna as a case study

52 K Beauclerc Conservation genetics of the highly endangered Puerto Rican crested toad (Peltophryne lemur) Urbanization And Immunology: Injury Incidence, Wound Healing, And Hematology Of Urban And Natural Gila Monsters In 53 J Davis - SH The Sonoran Desert 54 A Krivoruchko Differential Expression of Peroxiredoxins in an Anoxia-Tolerant Turtle

55 K Storey Expression of Heat Shock Proteins and Heat Shock Factor-1 in Response to Dehydration in Xenopus laevis

56 F Zaidan III Osmoregulation in the Diamond-backed Watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer): Salt Stress is Stressful

57 E Taylor Annual Body Temperature Profiles of Free-Ranging Male Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes (Crotalus o. oreganus)

58 K van Doorn Vascular dynamics in the snake spectacle Changes in Metabolism and Swim Bladder Characteristics of American Eels in response to infection with Anguillicola 59 P McLaughlin crassus 60 H Sadauskas-Henrique Histopathology of the gills of Astyanax fasciatus and Pimelodus maculatus of Reservoir from Dam of Furnas, Brazil Cannulation Of The Second Afferent Branchial Artery In Atlantic Cod, Gadus morhua, As Method Of Reducing Sampling- 61 T Ford induced Stress 62 E Maravilla Muscle Activity Patterns And Feeding Kinematics In Atlantic Hagfish (Myxine glutinosa)

63 A Geheber - SI Fish Community Persistence And Stability In The Pearl River: A Contemporary Study

64 K Longenecker Life History of Manini, Acanthurus triostegus sandvicensis

65 T Meckley The Impact Of Agriculture And Sedimentation On Fish Community Structure

66 T Vigliotta Ichthyofaunal Survey of the Rivers of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania

67 C Chang The occurrence of large-sized blueberry roughy Gephyroberyx japonicus off the southwestern Taiwan coast

68 F Uiblein Composition, distribution, and diversity of pelagic fishes around oceanic islands

69 J Maldonado Ocampo Altitudinal variation of a freshwater fish assemblage in mountain streams of the north flank of the Andes in Colombia

70 F Gibran Structure and Composition of Rocky Shore Fishes Across a Nearshore to Open Ocean Gradient in Southeastern Brazil

71 J McClain Trophic Structure Of Midwater Fishes Near Cold Seep Areas In The Gulf Of Mexico Based On Stable Isotopic Analyses

72 S Correa Feeding Ecology of an Introduced Generalist Frugivorous Fish: the Fate of Pacu in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

73 M Taylor Stomach Content Analysis of Kuhlia xenura in Kolekole Stream, Hawai‘i

74 C Montana Comparative Ecology of Two Crenicichla Species (Teleostei: Cichlidae) in a Venezuelan Neotropical Floodplain River The Ecology of an Introduced Cichlid, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus, and Native Herichthys Cichlids in the Río Pánuco 75 A Pease Basin, Mexico Trophic Ecology Of Thresher Sharks A. pelagicus Nakamura 1935 And Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1839) In Ecuadorian 76 F Galván-Magaña Pacific 77 A Quattrini Distribution of Anguilliform Leptocephali In The Gulf Of Mexico, With Preliminary Data On Stable Isotopic Composition

78 C Kaufman Form, Function & Fitness—Selection and Performance Gradients for Mosquitofish Exposed to Predatory Sunfish

79 R Torres-Mejia Effect Of Predation On Body Shape And Life History Of Females Of Gambusia (Teleostei: Poeciliidae).

80 J Langston Salinity Tolerance of the African Jewelfish Hemichromis letourneuxi, a Non-Native Fish in South Florida

81 A Wintzer Interactions between fishes and invasive jellyfish in the upper San Francisco Estuary, USA Biological Aspects Of Some Sciaenid Species From The Marine Area Along The Via Parque Isla De Salamanca, 82 A Acero Colombian Caribbean 83 A Fuiten Four new Amolops species from Myanmar

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37 2008 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Montreal, Canada POSTER SESSIONS AT A GLANCE SUNDAY, 27 JULY, Poster Session III

POSTER # PRESENTER(S) POSTER TITLE 1 K Parris Trading Off the Value and Impact of Ecological Field Studies: A Case Study of Toes, Swabs, Tadpoles and Tail Tips Is There More Food for the Endangered Dusky Gopher Frog in Frequently Burned, Grass-Dominated Longleaf Pine 2 J Pechmann Understory Than in Fire-Suppressed, Shrub-Dominated Understory? 3 K Kendell Alberta Volunteer Amphibian Monitoring Program 4 C Steelman Developing Predictive Models of Anuran Calling Activity: Optimization of Amphibian Monitoring Programs Habitat Suitability Index Models for the Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) and Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris triseriata maculata) 5 Z Otke in the Foothills Parkland Natural Sub-region and Bow River Basin, Alberta 6 J Veysey Effects of Forest Clearcutting and Buffer Width on Demography of Vernal Pool Amphibians

7 E Muths Detection of Wood Frog Egg Masses and Implications for Monitoring Amphibian Populations

8 M Gallagher Pollutants As Limiting Factors On Wood Frog Use Of Stormwater Ponds In A Suburban Watershed 9 D Hocking The Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Red-backed Salamanders in Northern Hardwood Forests The importance of natural history, landscape factors, and management practices, in conserving pond-breeding salamander 10 B Brodman diversity 11 E Carcagno Orientation of Vernal Pool Amphibians in an Industrial Forest Landscape

12 A Brand Amphibian Reproduction in a Suburban Landscape: The Value of Manmade Habitats

13 B Todd The North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations and Online Amphibian Information Portal

14 K Whittaker AmphibiaWeb: A Dynamic Online Resource Aiding Amphibian Conservation

15 L Regula-Meyer - SH Typha angustifolia and Phragmites australis may differentially affect Rana clamitans and Rana catesbeiana

16 V Titus Upland movements of juvenile eastern tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum) on Long Island

17 G Colli The structure of lizard assemblages in cerrado sensu stricto, central Brazil, under different burn regimes

18 E Britt Fire History and Sand Skink (Plestiodon reynoldsi) Population Abundance

19 S Wisniewski Brown Tree Snake Invasion Risk Assessment for the Continental United States

20 R Benjamin Evaluating the Success of Timber Rattlesnake Relocation Efforts in Eastern Kansas

21 PRutherfordP Rutherford Predicting suitable habitat for the northern prairie skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) in Manitoba

22 L Walston Habitat Use and Movement Patterns of Eastern Hognose Snakes (Heterodon platirhinos) in Southcentral New Hampshire

23 S Pittman - SH Population dynamics and demography of a bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) population ina Piedmont meadow bog

24 S Sterrett Evaluating Patterns of Riparian Disturbance and their Influence on Aquatic Turtles in the Lower Flint River Basin, Georgia

25 L Erb Mowing Guidelines in Turtle Habitat: Pastures, Successional Fields, and Hayfields

26 D Masse Raccoon Predation On A Northern Wood Turtle Population –A New Event At The Limit of its Range

27 M Hinderliter Headstarting Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in Southern Mississippi

28 H Balbach Development of a handbook on Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) health evaluation procedures

29 G Bentrup Tools for Planning and Designing Conservation Buffers

30 K Carpenter The IUCN Global Marine Species Assessment - Laying the Foundations for Marine Conservation Predictive Modeling And Spatial Mapping Of Rare Fish Species Using Boosted Regression Trees: A Step Toward High- 31 R Hopkins - SI Resolution Conservation Planning 32 K Capps - SI The Impacts of Armored Catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) on Invaded Freshwater Ecosystems Is Cating's method of transverse groove counts to annuli in American shad (Alosa sapidissima) applicable to rivers other than 33 W Duffy the Hudson and the Connecticut? 34 M Conner The Conservation Status of the southern cavefish Typhlichthys subterraneus in Arkansas

35 E Balart Sparus aurata (Perciformes: Sparidae): A New Potential Harmful Invader in the Gulf of California

36 M Nicholson Effect of American Beaver Dams and Impoundments on Endangered Okaloosa Darters

37 B Fluker Phylogeographic structure of the federally threatened Slackwater Darter, Etheostoma boschungi

38 P Fuentes South Nayarit, Mexico commercial marine ictiofauna composition for (2007-2008)

39 R Feeney Description of a Liopropoma from the Gulf of California (Actinopterygii: Serranidae)

40 J Szlachciak Developmental Morphology of the Skeleton of the Barbel, Barbus barbus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ostariophysi, Cyprinidae)

41 F Cerutti Photo identification of manta rays in the Indo-Pacific Ocean

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38 2008 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Montreal, Canada POSTER SESSIONS AT A GLANCE SUNDAY, 27 JULY, Poster Session III

POSTER # PRESENTER(S) POSTER TITLE 42 K Cabarle An Assessment Of Heavy Metal Toxicity In Embryonic And Larval Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)

43 C Lind - SH Egress and reproduction in Northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus o. oreganus) in central California Role of Sex Steroid Hormones and Environmental Factors on the Initiation of Courtship Behavior and Mating in Male Red- 44 R Krohmer Sided Garter Snakes, a Species Exhibiting a Dissociated Reproductive Pattern 45 M Parker Female mimicry in garter snakes: the role of estrogen Transient ontogenetic expression of hermaphroditic gonad morphology in the Gobiosoma group of the Neotropical Seven 46 K Cole Spined Gobies (Gobiosomatini, Gobiidae) 47 N Gonzalez Reproductive Ecology of the Fish Assemblages of Two Floodplain Lagoons of the Low Orinoco River Basin

48 J Kinsey Effects of PCB exposure on the reproductive potential of artificially matured male American eels Validation of Daily Increment Formation on Otoliths and Birth Date Calculation for Young-of-the-Year Black Sea Bass 49 M Tweedie (Centropristis striata) 50 J Wright - SI The Phylogenetic Distribution of Siluriform Venom Glands The Fish That Scrapes Its Food: A Kinematic Analysis Of The Scraping Jaw Movements In The South American Suckermouth 51 T Geerinckx Armored Catfishes (Loricariidae, Siluriformes) 52 A Barrera-Garcia Osteological Description Of Fish Species From The Family Carangidae

53 M Ristovska Ontogeny of the Branchial Muscles of the Ohrid Trout (Salmo letnica Karaman, 1924) Disentangling Complex Phenotype-environment Relationships: Diversification of the African Cyprinid Barbus neumayeri across 54 L Chapman Water Flow and Oxygen Gradients 55 L Ferry-Graham Unusual jaw morphology facilitates piscivory in the pike killifish, Belonesox belizanus

56 C O'Quin - SI Developing a Basis for Convergence: Ontogeny of the Zebrafish Pharyngeal Jaw Apparatus Origin and development of the palatal organ: Using zebrafish to investigate the development of trophic morphological 57 F Oberg novelties 58 P Hernandez Distribution of muscle fiber types within chondrichthyan muscles

59 P Konstantinidis The dorsal- and anal-fin skeleton of the Mediterranean clingfish Gouania wildenowi (Teleostei: Gobiesociformes)

60 K Mandrekar Morphological Analysis of North American Cave and Swamp fish (Amblyopsidae)

61 T Stewart - SI The Evolution and Design of a Unique Feeding Mechanism: Asymmetry in Lake Tanganyika Scale Eating Cichlids

62 M Pelletier Larval fish locomotion: empirical data, swimming signature and model prediction

63 D Siegel Histology of the paired-fin adhesive pads of ostariophysan fishes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi)

64 M Jorgensen Temperature, Toads, and Trajectories: Morphological Ontogeny of Tadpoles in Different Thermal Regimes

65 T Schriever Adhesive glands in Gastrophryne carolinensis Spermatid Ultrastructural Changes during Spermiogenesis within the Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorous 66 K Gribbins leucostoma) 67 J Bartoszek Genetic Differentiation of Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) in a Fragmented Landscape in Southwest Ohio Genetic Confirmation of Hybridization between Catostomus fumeiventris and Catostomus santaanae (Cypriniformes: 68 D Buth Catostomidae) in the Santa Clara Drainage 69 J Austin Genetic estimates of population structure of the endangered Okaloosa darter 70 G Hubbard Population Genetics of Four Species of Pteronotropis

71 R Peruquetti Cytochemical study of the nucleolar cycle during spermatogenesis of Tilapia rendalli (Teleostei, Cichlidae) Evaluation genotoxic and mutagenic potential of waters of Preto river through micronucleus test using erythrocytes of 72 R Peruquetti Oreochromis niloticus (Teleostei, Cichlidae) On The Absence Of A Plethodontid From The Northern Great Plains Of Manitoba With Comments On Our Description Of A 73 C Beachy New Species, Plethodon prairiensis sp. nov., That Is Based On No Specimens Or Data 74 L King Diversification and Phylogeography of Melanophryniscus rubriventris (Anura: Bufonidae)

75 M Roberts Mixed stock analysis of adult male loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA

76 W Roosenburg Intraspecific Phylogeography of Graptemys ouachitensis Morphological And Call Divergence, And Contact Zone Dynamics Of Cryptic Lineages Of The Spring Peeper (Pseudacris 77 K Stewart crucifer) 78 M White A Rexamination of Relationships Among the Palm Pit Vipers (Bothriechis)

79 R Reis Species richness and cladal diversity in freshwater fishes of the Americas

80 H Hamilton Taxonomy and phylogeography of Hippocampus kuda in Papua New Guinea

81 R Schelly Patterns of fish diversification in the lower Congo River rapids region of west central Africa

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